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火药
huǒ​yào HSK7

gunpowder

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
火药 火藥 huǒ​yào
gunpowder
A chemical mixture that burns or explodes rapidly, releasing gas and heat; one of the Four Great Inventions of ancient China.

Frequency

Movie subtitles
5.37 per million appears in 2% of films
Written text
2.47 per million

Details

HSK 2.0
Level 6
HSK 3.0
Level 7

Cross-References

Classifier

  • 包 bāo

Sources

Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)